Research Assistant (Virtual Reality Software Development) at Helios Health Institute (ehemals Leipzig Heart Institute GmbH)
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Igor Kim is a versatile software engineer and research assistant with 10 years of experience spanning full-stack web (React/NextJS, TypeScript), backend systems (Go, Python) and mobile (native iOS, recent Flutter). He combines hands-on product engineering—designing OpenAPI-driven architectures, Dockerized deployments and HealthKit/ResearchKit integrations—with academic research in VR and telecommunications, including LTE/5G protocol stack work and live RAN measurements. Comfortable moving between prototype research and production delivery, he has introduced CI/unit testing practices and mentored student projects while contributing to open-source tooling such as a Python Duolingo API. Based in Leipzig, he brings a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach that blends low-level telecom insight with modern web and mobile development.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information and Communication Technology at Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science
Master of Engineering - MEng Information and communication technology, Master of Engineering - MEng Information and communication technology at University of Applied Sciences Leipzig
Contributions summary:Igor primarily contributed to the Duolingo API, written in Python, by implementing and modifying methods within the `duolingo.py` file. Their work included adding a method to retrieve user data by ID and refactoring code to use `.format()` instead of f-strings. Furthermore, they incorporated suggestions from a code review, adjusted indentation, and changed method access level to public. Finally, they integrated a method to retrieve user data by id within another method to improve the system's code base.
Contributions:85 commits, 19 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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